Feeling funny after eating sugary foods

Feeling funny after eating sugary foods

I wanted to see if any of you had had a similair experience.

When I eat anything really sugary I have funny feelings. It feels like my heart is beating fast and hard. It isn't, my pulse is normal but it sure feels that way. I get very jittery and often times but not all the time nauseous.

From everything I am reading I should be having no symptoms of high blood sugars what mine are. I run anywhere from 140-160 on a "normal" day post meal and have gone as high as 190s. I thought it might high sugar levels because I often feel this way when my sugars are high but there are times my sugars are higher and I don't feel anything. There are other times I feel this way after eating something sugary and my sugars aren't high at all.

My blood sugars don't seem to be a common thread but eating things high in sugar is. I have NO DOUBT that eating sugary things causes these feelings... I wonder if anyone else has had similair experiences and if it is related to the diabetes thing or something different entirely.

Since eliminating most higher carb items, including sugar I found now when I eat those things, especially a dessert with sugar and flour, I get a sick to my stomach feeling. It tastes so good, but it makes me litterally ill. I'm not sure why I even eat those foods, it's an addiction.

I very seldom indulge in sugary foods, but other high carb foods do make me feel bad after eating. And I feel bad when I just get up around 160 - 170. I particularly remember a run-in I had with a bag of bbq Fritos.........I really paid for that one! And yes I do feel nauseous after eating something like that, for more than one day usually. That's why I try to stay strong, but hey, we're all human.

Same here. The other day a friend at work tempted me with a box of high end chocolates he had received as a gift. I didn't want to be rude (no one at work knows I'm pre-D), and so I decided, what the heck. I picked a dark chocolate truffle with some kind of coffee-ish nougat in the middle. It tasted great, but within 30 minutes after eating it I definitely began to feel out of sorts. It felt as if my pulse was racing and my skin was getting slightly warm, and I began to feel queasy and thirsty. Moreover, the smell of the chocolate, which still hung in the air in my office and on my breath, started to really creep me out and make me feel sicker. It seemed as if the smell would not go away, even a couple of hours later, and it smelled sickly sweet and rancid, like poison. Which for me, I suppose, it was.

Since I don't eat a lot of "sugary foods" anymore, I'm guessing if I started to I'd not only suffer some high bg's I'd rather not have but I'd be bouncing off the walls! I'm wondering what kind of foods we're talking about here. Can you tell us a little more, Angela?

Same here. The other day a friend at work tempted me with a box of high end chocolates he had received as a gift. I didn't want to be rude (no one at work knows I'm pre-D), and so I decided, what the heck. I picked a dark chocolate truffle with some kind of coffee-ish nougat in the middle. It tasted great, but within 30 minutes after eating it I definitely began to feel out of sorts. It felt as if my pulse was racing and my skin was getting slightly warm, and I began to feel queasy and thirsty. Moreover, the smell of the chocolate, which still hung in the air in my office and on my breath, started to really creep me out and make me feel sicker. It seemed as if the smell would not go away, even a couple of hours later, and it smelled sickly sweet and rancid, like poison. Which for me, I suppose, it was.

When I eat anything really sugary I have funny feelings. It feels like my heart is beating fast and hard. It isn't, my pulse is normal but it sure feels that way. I get very jittery and often times but not all the time nauseous.

From everything I am reading I should be having no symptoms of high blood sugars what mine are. I run anywhere from 140-160 on a "normal" day post meal and have gone as high as 190s. I thought it might high sugar levels because I often feel this way when my sugars are high but there are times my sugars are higher and I don't feel anything. There are other times I feel this way after eating something sugary and my sugars aren't high at all.

My blood sugars don't seem to be a common thread but eating things high in sugar is. I have NO DOUBT that eating sugary things causes these feelings... I wonder if anyone else has had similair experiences and if it is related to the diabetes thing or something different entirely.

Angela

Is there anything else you are eating with the sugary stuff? Any fat or protien?

Is that what that was? You may be right, but I've had what I think were reactive lows in the past, in which I feel tired, irritable and hungry. The symptoms I was describing above felt different. I didn't feel tired or hungry in the least, but more nauseous. It felt as if I had just imbibed a toxin.